Caustic Cover Critic: Because Sometimes You Just Need to See a Lot of Demented Books with Gorillas on the Covers...

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Because Sometimes You Just Need to See a Lot of Demented Books with Gorillas on the Covers...

(Yes, I know he's technically a (or rather THE) robot gangster, but he LOOKS like a gorilla.)

6 comments:

Ben said...: Forget "Snakes on a Plane", "Gorillas on a Zeppelin" is definitely my animal/aircraft crossover of choice!; 2 July 2009 at 02:51
JRSM said...: If I could only have found an aimge of Six-Gun Gorilla, who I learned about through Jess Nevins. I quote his description: "the Six-Gun Gorilla appeared in Adventure and Wizard in 1926 (I think). I do not know who created him. O'Neil was an actual gorilla, who had been trapped as a baby, brought to the States, and sold to Johnson, a Colorado prospector. Johnson, a kind man, treated O'Neil very well. He also taught O'Neil how to dig, fetch firewood, haul up buckets of water, cook, clean, and (oh dear) load and fire a revolver. Naturally, when Johnson is murdered for what he knows about "the great motherlode," O'Neil ooks revenge. He straps on a bandolier and two six-shooters and begins tracking the thieves across a hundred miles of Colorado mountains and badlands. He picks them off one by one, meanwhile discovering a talent for holding up stagecoaches and using them to chase fleeing gunmen."; 2 July 2009 at 04:48
Rex Parker said...: Human Bat v. Robot Gangster may be my favorite cover (and concept) ever.
rp; 2 July 2009 at 14:55
JRSM said...: Frankly, if life has anything better to offer, I can't think of it.; 2 July 2009 at 16:06
Annabel Gaskell said...: The Willard Price takes me back to my childhood! I remember reading the entire series, very tomboyish of me at the time.; 5 July 2009 at 11:29
JRSM said...: So the question is, did you stand rooted to the spot, or did you run like mad?; 5 July 2009 at 15:43